This month, foreign-language teaching has become a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum for the first time. Isabel de Bertodano looks at how schools are adapting to the new government requirements When the six-year-old pupils at St Mary’s Catholic Primary in Lowestoft returned to school this month, they were introduced to a new subject: French. Through a programme of singing, acting and storytelling, using books such as La chenille affamée (“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”) and other translations of old favourites, Juliana Lee opens a new world to her pupils. “They enjoy it – it’s not so strange to them to hear words they don’t recognise, they absorb it,” says Lee. In fact, pupils at the school in East Anglia are somewhat ah